MT. PLEASANT — In the wake of July’s commission meeting, a special meeting was held Thursday to name a new city attorney, enact a severance package for the former city manager, and begin the search for a new city manager.

WASHINGTON — The 49-cent stamp has eight more months of life until the U.S. Postal Service has to roll the price back, the effect of a ruling that allows the post office to collect $1.1 billion to cover its recession-related losses.

WASHINGTON — In early 2011, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted the president of Pakistan with a disturbing piece of intelligence. The spy agency had learned that Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader who had become one of the world’s most wanted fugitives after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was being treated at a hospital in southern Pakistan.

NASHVILLE — An estimated 322 Tennessee prison guards have quit working for the state since the Department of Correction in 2014 began phasing in a new overtime policy, which some state lawmakers blame for leaving prison conditions unsafe from increased violence.

Jumping on water is hard. Heck, walking on water is hard. Floating on water is hard. Some animals — especially insects — can manage a water-based jump, but only through impressive feats of bio-engineering perfected by evolution.

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has established the Chattanooga Heroes Fund to support the families of those who lost their lives as well as those who were wounded in the shootings on July 16.

WASHINGTON — The so-called sharing economy is fast emerging as a 2016 presidential battleground, exposing fundamentally different approaches over how to embrace new technologies without hurting American workers.